Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
1. (Linguistics) of or relating to meaning or arising from distinctions between the meanings of different words or symbols. 2. (Philosophy) of or relating to semantics. 3. (Logic) logic concerned with the interpretation of a formal theory, as when truth tables are given as an account of the sentential connectives.